Architecturally, the Las Vegas Federal Building is an example of the eclectic revivalism
which distinguished most public buildings designed by the Treasury Department's Supervising Architect's
office in the 1920s and 1930s. Although it may not have succeeded in its intended role as an exemplar of
good taste to be imitated by subsequent private structures (the most famous of which, of course, are the
amazingly profligate casinos), the building is the most refined of Las Vegas' Depression-era architecture.

The Federal Building also represents the city's part of an extensive federal building program initiated in the late
1920s by the Hoover administration - the forerunner to Roosevelt's Public Works Administration. Like the immense
Boulder Dam project, under construction at the same time, this building presented a locally prominent
symbol of the presence of the federal government, and as the first federal building erected in Las Vegas,
it is a source of pride for the city and a locally prominent landmark